Alexis Finch of @agentfin and Graphite Mind gave an Ignite talk in San Francisco about how we all need to draw more. While she is talking to us about that, we get to watch how simple lines can create a dinosaur. Fantastic presentation!

When I followed her direction, this is what I got. I added eyelashes. Comes from all those years of watching too much anime in high school.

Here are a few samples — check out her full set at this Behance portfolio page and read Wendy's article about the event and her exhibit at the Ace Hotel on her blog and a companion piece on Behance too. Wow!

Great work Wendy!

Here's fun and interesting approach to sketchnoting ideas — Margaret Hagan has taken the process of filing a lawsuit and turned it into a graphical map with drawings and text details.

Be sure to check out her other drawings at her site, Rablint.

Matthew Magain created a fun comic on sketchnoting - The Art of Visual Note-taking — Matthew on the why:

Recently I was asked to contribute an article about sketchnoting to a print magazine called Primarily English, put out by the Victorian Association for Teaching of English (VATE). Rather than write about sketching, I decided to sketch it instead. I’ve been reading a few graphic novels lately, so the end result was a four-page comic strip:

Brilliant work Matthew — I love this!

Benjamin Norris is doing some great work on sketchnotes. Above is a sample of his work from the Early Education Technology Conference (EETC). Super nice typography here, along with clear, well structured elements and handwriting.

The team at the Knowledge Distillery are having some fun with sketchnotes, starting with this one from a 2008 talk by Gary Vaynerchuk at Web 2.0.

Check out their feed for more sketchnotes and visual thinking work.

Keep on rockin' the sketchnotes guys!

One of my favorite sketchnoters — Eva-Lotta Lamm — has just released her latest book Sketchnotes 2011. The new book includes over 100 talks as sketchnotes, captured in 2011, along with a special guest section featuring 10 of Eva-Lotta's favorite sketchnoters, capturing the same TED talk in their own style.

Guest sketchnoters include Amanda Wright, Bauke Schildt, Carolyn Sewell, Craighton Berman, Gerren Lamson, Len Kendall, Matthew Magain, Paul Soupiset, Timothy J. Reynolds and me, Mike Rohde.

The new book is $32 at Lulu.com.

Here's a sample page:

Be sure to check out Eva-Lotta's 2009-2010 book as well — check out sample pages in this book on Flickr.

Love the work of Chris Shipton from JQuery UK. I enjoy seeing Chris' use of cartoony characters in this piece.

Be sure to check out this great Rich Pictures illustration of the differences between different kinds of visual note-taking.

I love the idea of a little calendar on the top right of the page to show what day the sketchnotes were captured.

Be sure to read her detailed analysis of the talks and sketchnotes in her UX Red Gate article UX London in sketchnotes.

Great work Michelle!